There he is, the honoured guest of the Holiday time. My life size Santa Claus! I am very pleased with him, the first life-size figure I have made and he came out so great. Besides that, this was really great project and I enjoyed working with it so much! He is jolly and kind looking old chap, and I hope the children will not be frightened of him. The Santa Clause is placed in the coffeeshop Kahvila Aurora now for people to see.

The Santa's coat is an old red woollen coat that I decorated with trimmings that I made of an old (muskrat?) furcoat. As well as the red hat. He has old traditional Finnish leather boots, and fur-lined leather mittens.

I sculpted his wrinkles after a pic of my father.

In the car on the way to the coffeeshop. He seems to enjoy the ride...

I made the body from foam and covered it with padding. There's an iron skeleton made by my hubby inside, with nut and bolt joints. Now I'm waiting for the hair material to arrive so I can attach the head for him. It will be easier to glue the facial hair before putting the head on. Until that he has to be headless...

I have been working with a really fun project! I am giggling here alone while working. Pretty gross with the dentures and eyes and all, but I am really enjoying myself with this! This will be a real human size thing... I really love working in big scale for a change. I made a plaster mold of my hubby's face and sculpted over that with polymer clay. The "skull" that goes inside, is made of expanding polyurethane foam. I made the eyes too (in the last pic they are another not so good pair of eyes in the sculpting phase.) next I am going to paint the face...

What is fantasy? Anything you can imagine, even if you had never seen it. Is it true or is it fake... that you just don't know for sure. Fairies, elves, spirits, sprites, mermaids, seirens, whitches, wizards, trolls, gnomes. In the old times people used to truly believe in them. Who wouldn't have heard tales of house gnomes, those little relatives of Christmas elves. There was another strange underground world, and fairies were something else than nice, beautiful fairy-tale sweethearts. They were mischievous, cunning, seductive and even evil beings, who could attract a careless person to their enchanted world forever. What do you believe in? You can experience something magical here, and you may sneak into the dreamlike world of the mystical beings.

Veistoksia vai nukkeja? - Sculptures or Dolls?

Veistoksia! Koska - nukella voi leikkiä, ainakin periaatteessa. No taidenukeilla ei tietenkään varsinaisesti leikitä. Nuken raajat yleensä liikkuvat, ja monesti vaatteet ovat riisuttavat/puettavat. Veistos perinteisesti mielletään pelkästään kovasta materiaalista tehdyksi taide-esineeksi, joten määrittely nuken ja veistoksen välillä näissä töissäni on vähän häilyvä, näillähän on päälle liimatut vaatteet - no, asut - ja hiukset. Eivät ihan perinteisiä veistoksia siis. Mutta miellän ne kumminkin veistoksiksi, enkä mielelläni puhu niistä nukkeina!Sculptures! Because - you can play with a doll, basically. Well, you don't really play with art dolls though. The limbs of a doll are usually posable, and you also can dress/undress a doll. A sculpture is traditionally an art piece made from hard material, so the line between a doll or a sculpture is thin in my work. They do have outfits glued on, and they do hyave real hair. Not traditional sculptures as you could say. But I think they are sculptures, and don't like to use the word doll when talking about them!

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